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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 286 km NNE of Fais, Micronesia


Earthquake location 12.2801S, 141.1447WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 286 km NNE of Fais, Micronesia (178 miles) on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 43 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 43 km, 141.1447° East, 12.2801° North. The temblor was detected at 06:41:09 / 6:41 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/01/17 / 2017-01-11 21:41:09 / January 11, 2017 @ 9:41 pm. Event id: us10007smq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10007smq.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 286 km NNE of Fais, Micronesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.1447° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 12.2801° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 286km NNE of Fais, Micronesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-01-11 21:41:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-01-11 21:57:35 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 385 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.856 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 59 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10007smq Id of event.
Event Code 10007smq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10007smq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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